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I've found some useful javascript tune-ups: The Last days I was forced to use an older machine for browsing while my main rig beside it was busy or unusable due to repairs or upgrades or whatever. Espescially I wanted to watch some youtube and found it being overloaded by the scripts. It wasn't even able to play 360p properly. Most of the time it ended in an endless spinning wheel until it failed with an error. That machine is able to play 1080 inside a native player. - CPU is a AMD sempron3000+ @ 1,8GHz. Single Core - Version: New Moon 28.10.7a1 (2024-06-28) It appeared that the javascript engine went completely bonkers. So I looked into the config to find some settings to play with and toggled the following entries: - javascript.options.parallel_parsing = false - javascript.options.wasm_baselinejit = true This made a HUGE diference! I don't know what the second option does but for me it is obvious that the parallel pre-loading and parsing and compiling overloads the CPU, precisely the caching of data and scripts. This parallel processing is helpful if you have at least 2 cores and some L3 cache, but it utterly destroys the pipelining of single-core CPUs. Of course this raises the latency a little bit, but it forces to process pages and scripts in a more serialized way. Now I can even switch the playback to 720p inside youtube, though with some framedrops but it can reach this level I also once found a site with palemoon x86 SSE2 and non-SSE2 compiled as deb-packages for linux. (Got dual-boot on this machine) Here it is much worse, obviously these miss some single-core tune-ups that roytam includes in his builds. Need to investigate that further

... Obviously NOT the preferred practice among many here, but if you install the extension directly from the CWS and have not opted for Supermium's "Ungoogled" mode (or blocked extensions-update-check via a cmdline flag: " --disable-background-networking"), the extension will auto-update if a compatible newer version has been released since - to speed this up yourself, you can go to "chrome://extensions/", enable Developer Mode and click the "Update" button; I realise this forum is frequented mostly by haters of "auto-everything" , just stating the default Supermium behaviour for the rest of the members ...

In other words, you don't know the reason. Coulda, shoulda, woulda... The shallow minded sourceforge owner needs to switch that "protection" ASAP, before that site, everyone forgot about 20 years ago, died out completely. Mind I ask, what does the bank support say? Reboot the PC?

Thanks, it may be the case, I of course don't use the default SM UA.

We've been through this many times, you don't get because Cloudflare already got your successfully generated unique variations API key on all browsers, including SM, which you drag with you across all computers. You showed it to us, already don't remember?

BTW, you need it to change the settings of Min2Tray, maintain the Minimized at startup list or the Bosskey list, and modify the short cuts. But you can hide it and access it using WindowsXP's native feature.

What about using Windows XP's native feature to hide inactive or unwanted icons? I described it in my documentation. Especially, because of @Dave-H!

Just to say that I tried using the scripts which Violentmonkey said were designed for the site I was on (in this case Facebook). I installed a couple of them, using the Violentmonkey interface only, and they again apparently installed fine, but didn't work. So, whatever the problem is, it's presumably nothing to do with the scripts themselves or the way that they're being imported. I will try with a new clean 360Chrome profile. The easiest way I can think of to do that is to disable the current user profile folder by re-naming it, and then running the browser, and it should generate a clean new one. If the problem is still there, I will check the flags in the loader.ini file, which are - --user-data-dir="%Profile%" --no-default-browser-check --disable-component-update --disable-background-networking --allow-outdated-plugins --cipher-suite-blacklist=0xcc14,0xe013 --ignore-certificate-errors --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

... Can't remember where I snitched this from or where to test its correct functionality, but here you go : // ==UserScript== // @name Inject Promise.withResolvers() Polyfill [119] // @version 0.0.1 // @match *://*/* // @run-at document-start // @grant none // ==/UserScript== Promise.withResolvers || (Promise.withResolvers = function withResolvers() { var a, b, c = new this(function (resolve, reject) { a = resolve; b = reject; }); return {resolve: a, reject: b, promise: c}; });

I am unable to replicate. Violentmonkey and scripts install and execute just fine for me in 360Chrome v13.5.1030 ungoogled, v13.5.2036 ungoogled, and in v13.5.2036 regular. Both in XP and in 10. The only thing I did during my testing which seems different from your testing is that I did not "import" scripts. I installed "new" because I had nothing to import at the time. So I just ran some greasyfork font scripts just for testing. Everything worked as expected.

I had simillar model in past. Looks like some drivers, which i had for that laptop could work also on Windows 9x. Some stuff were taken here (https://digiex.net/threads/acer-aspire-as5633wlmi-laptop-vista-windows-7-x64-drivers.119/) and other just downloaded somewhere else several years ago. Unfortunately, i sure only about Card Reader driver (since other stuff requires at least 2000). https://mega.nz/folder/hmVhVQhL#apTGDi4xF5jHT0UmocVUGA Also here is changelog from Synaptics Pointing Device, it has info about versions, which have Windows 9x support (8.3.17 and earlier), but i have only later release without that. Can't say anything about video and audio drivers, since i used on this laptop only XP and 7, and almost all saved software (including some Acer tools)/drivers were for them only. Upd. Also added Acer-specific stuff and some rare non-Acer drivers.

I once had a similar device, but had to add a very thin, flat air ventilator for the cooling, Oh, and for XP. 1) "Optimize for Quick Removal - This setting disables write caching on the disk and in Windows, so you can disconnect this device without using the Safe Removal icon" 2) "Optimize for performance - This setting enables write caching in Windows to improve disk performance. To disconnect this device from the computer, click the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the taskbar notification area". https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/hot-swapping-a-sata-drive-in-windows-2000-and-xp.1097903/

Win 7, r3dfox 128, eeePC 900 (CPU 900Mhz, GMA 900).

Hi Dave, Happy New Year ! It's been a long while since I last launched my 360EEv13.x copies, but your post made me test things on my side; I seem unable to confirm nor reproduce your findings here ; in a quasi-fresh profile of v13.5.1022.0 I installed the latest BETA version of the Violentmonkey extension from the CWS, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/violentmonkey-beta/opokoaglpekkimldnlggpoagmjegichg The "new" CWS is incompatible with Cr86, so I first downloaded the .CRX file of the extension via "Supermium+Get CRX" extension... As you wrote, VM-2.29.1b installed fine; I then imported a scripts+settings back-up I had previously exported from my VM installation under KafanMiniBrowser (Cr87-based); that backup was imported successfully in the 360EEv13.5 browser; all installed scripts were loaded without errors and upon checking them on the associated webpages, I verified they work as intended... I have many userscripts installed but, as two examples for you, below is the userscript https://github.com/Procyon-b/GitHub-sort-by-recently/blob/master/userscript.user.js working on the VM GH repo page (the script, unfortunately, ONLY works when NOT being logged-in to GH): and further down is the userscript https://greasyfork.org/scripts/479807-chrome-new-webstore-make-available-for-all-web-browsers-which-support-it working on the "new CWS" webpage for VM BETA: There have been many rebuilds of the 360EEv13.x browsers , unsure which flavour you're using yourself; TBH, since both 13.0 and 13.5 use the same Cr86 core, I never did bother myself with 13.5 and stuck, at that time, to a v13.0 (Russian) mod; roytam1's Serpent 52 was serving me well at that period, 360EEv13 was ONLY used by me for some Chromium-specific webpages... It's really sad that now both 360EEv13.x and St52 are inadequate for the sites I use (e.g. GitHub), so latest Supermium it has to be for me, mainly ; but when I was using 360EEv13, I had no issues with the Violentmonkey extension... Please try to troubleshoot with a fresh 13.5 profile; and try to familiarise yourself with all the VM settings; take extra care to leave the "script injection mode" to its default setting, i.e. "auto"... Cheers ...

Just last week I was fiddling around with a 1TB desktop Seagate Barracuda ST31000333AS, bad firmware SD35, of 2008. This was the initial Seagate model which would die out of the blue, for which Seagate provided a non-working firmware update. The HDD was used as a backup copy, with Health indicated by Hard Disk Sentinel at 84%. I first ran the Short Self-test, then the Extended Self-test [in the "Information" tab of Hard Disk Sentinel]. I then ran the Read test, then the "Read + WRITE + read" test. I then ran Beyond Compare to compare all files of the nearly full 1TB backup Seagate vs a good master HDD, all files and folders were identical. These intensive tests by Hard Disk Sentinel, maybe altogether 30 hours of continuous reading and writing, had not damaged this time-bomb Seagate, Health had stayed at 84%. Hard Disk Sentinel seems to handle poor HDDs very well. In any case the Health indication and the Short-Self-test (takes 2mins) put very little stress on a HDD and give an indication whether something is conspicuously wrong with the HDD and help decide whether it would be advisable to continue testing. I subsequently ran "Reinitialize disk surface" [a sophisticated low level format, reallocation of weak sectors etc] on the time-bomb Seagate because it had contained 1 reallocated bad sector. Health then declined to 83%. I subsequently re-partitioned the time-bomb Seagate, copied with Beyond Compare all stuff from the 1TB master HDD back to it. A binary compare with Beyond Compare of all files and folders on the master HDD vs backup HDD showed that they were identical. Health had stayed at 83%.

Powering it down is also not advisable, since it can just never spin up again. In such cases I usually flip those poor dying b*stards in an attempt to spin them up. Some models do spin up when placed upside down, make it very gently, while they're powered on.

I strongly advise against any type of tests on any allegedly dying HDD, especially if we know the disk is from the Deathstar 2.0 family. From what I understood, @Cixertalready run chkdsk. CHKDSK is basically a death sentence for those disks, last nail in the coffin.

It's the infamous Deathstar 2.0. They are doomed. I warned @Dave-H many times, he just plays with fire, I strongly advise, just forget about it, since it won't even allow you to make a comparison in which you could trust. Regarding the software, if you still want to do it, I trust WinHex, With it, you can open raw files, then see which file corresponds to which by checking their headers, it's long, it doesn't worth it. Recently, I encountered a disconnecting drive which I wanted to restore, it had the photos of my ex-girlfriend and me, Then I was busy for a month or so, I had to mend up myself. And you know what, I don't need those files anymore. xD. I found a new candidate for my girlfriend, bought a new, much better, photo-camera, and I bought a new 8TB HDD.

This might have been missed

Yes, seems there got something wrong with the rar creation. WinNTSetup 5.4.1 - added missing LANG folder - bootice language files prefer MUI names - disabled multicore apply for x86 version. - removed system menu integration

WinNTSetup 5.4 - support for Windows 24H2 and Server 2025 - added arm64 and x86 versions - language files prefer MUI names - support for RTL languages - use only one DISM session - fixed Windows 7 ESP drive mounting - updated Windows 7 USB3 drivers instructions - new disable defender tweak includes Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

Wrong, but thanks. And then again, I can get there with other browsers on the same OS. CatsXP of the same version works fine, Ungoogled 110/111 works fine. I can't run higher versions of Ungoogled due to the need of the Dwrite.dll "platform update" for the stupid coloured smileys,/fonts, which I don't want/not_going_to install.

I guess many Windows 8.0 users wish to have IE11 and .NET Framework 4.8, and here is a way to easily install them on Windows 8.0 (PowerShell 5.1 still need the good old workaround), and it is: Just install those packages (I recommend you to do that on vanilla 8.0 without any updates, but you can install them on already fully updated copy of 8.0 (just you need to reinstall updates again or some apps will be broken such as Discord): https://gitlab.com/stdout12/adns/uploads/c7c9f583da309adfb5f7a621ff3cf218/W8_NetFx4_IE11_Prereqs.7z And then reboot, and import the reg file that I pinned to manually install .NET 4.8 like normal And proceed to install IE11 and .NET 4.8 like normal (as long as you have installed pre-requisites (and preferably updates till at least 2019) before doing that) And voila, you should have a fully working IE11 and .NET 4.8 (its security updates will install like normal too) patchwu.reg

But, if you already use this feature, why does the Min2Tray icon bother you then? Hide it! You can access it by clicking the arrow at any time.

@mina7601! As my beta tester, what do you think about the implementation of Min2Tray in my program package? Do you like it? Does the additional systray icon bother you? Do you use or like the global feature to minimize most of all windows to the systray by right-clicking the close button?

A VM is running in a host system requiring real hardware in any case. Therefore, you must have a much more powerful computer than me, otherwise you couldn't run a VM, an OS in an OS. My Windows XP computer is more than 22 years old and can't run a VM. Too low system resources, too slow, and a 32 bit system only. BTW, in your profile, you stated Windows 11 as your main OS. Then, your computer is much more powerful than mine without knowing your exact hardware specs.

A VM is running in a host system requiring real hardware in any case. Therefore, you must have a much more powerful computer than me, otherwise you couldn't run a VM, an OS in an OS. My Windows XP computer is more than 22 years old and can't run a VM. Too low system resources, too slow, and a 32 bit system only.

I forgot to mention that I am very interested in the opinions and experiences of users which have installed my program package ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu TLS 1.3 3V3 in Windows XP on an old computer which is less powerful or even slow, and low on system resources like me. Maybe, with a CPU lacking of SSE2 instructions set, i.e. SSE only. Please, post your observations and impressions! I need this kind of feedback! Cheers, AstroSkipper

Very funny! You have simply to replace them by the desired language in the Settings of PopMenu. No chance of more than one language, unfortunately! Unless, you provide several versions of the file PopMenu.ini in different languages. But, only one of them can be loaded at a time. The strings inside PopMenu.exe can't be replaced easily. The program is a compiled executable. My recommendation is to leave it all in the language English only as it already is. So that it remains consistent, of course! Cheers, AstroSkipper